Photo of the Day, Boston Style: Part XVIII (2024)

[bigpicture7]

So long ago there's 2 dead car brands in the same shot!

Now that you mention it, "car brand deaths" (CBDs) is actually a pretty good unit of time to benchmark project timelines around here.

Let's see -
Plymouth: RIP 2001
Oldsmobile: RIP 2004
Pontiac: RIP 2010
Saturn: RIP 2010
Mercury: RIP 2011
Saab: RIP 2016
Scion: RIP 2016
So, since the turn of the century in the U.S. market, a major brand dies, on average, every 2.1 years.

Going by aB thread activity duration (which we all know reflects the official start/end of projects):
The Speediest Imaginable Project = 1 CBD
Lab building at 30 Hampshire ~2 years = 1 CBD
Ragon Institute Cambridge ~3.5 years = 1.7 CBDs
1001 Boylston (Car Gurus/Citizen M) ~6 years = 2.9 CBDs
The Alcott ~11 years = 5.2 CBDs
115 Winthrop Square Tower ~14 years = 6.7 CBDs
South Station Tower = disqualified since it's so old its start clearly occurred decades before aB existed

 

[RandomWalk]

Some things never change, like the last candy factory in Cambridge:

2004

2024